You need to mark them readonly. What has probably happened is the end of file marker on the tapes is not complete because a backup failed while processing. I presume these are primary pool tapes. If you have a COPY POOL in you possession then you can rebuild them using the restore command.
Have you done a q volume on each to see how full they are? Another option is do a move data vvvvvv on each of them to move the good data to elsewhere in the pool. Then the only thing you will lose is the last file or so on the tapes, if that because it was probably never commited in the database and was backed up on another tape. When you have gotten all off that you can, if the tape does not go scratch at that point, you will just have to do a delete volume vvvvvv discarddata=yes. Any file backups still on the tape will be lost, but they already are so it really does not matter. When the next backup is run the current version of the file will get saved again if its match on the tape was its active version. This is easy to get out of. Now, there is one other possibility. The tapes may have no data on them and simply need to be relabeled because the labels are bad or were never put on the tapes. Been here, done this, fixed this before. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 -----Original Message----- From: Dottie Hamilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 9:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tapes becoming unavail I am having problems with the same 5 tapes becoming unavail, I have made them readw and even tried moving the data back to diskpool to make the tapes reusable. None of this stops the problem, I am at the end of my knowledge, anyone have an idea how to correct this and maybe stop it from happening again? thanks -DH
